Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-06-08

action of the trustees as shown in the tes-
timony OF Mr.. Potter the steward. Two Of
the trustees admitted charging $1,000 to the
coal account that was used as they claim
there were were no vouchers to show that
such was the fact. The total misappropria
ton appears to be $20,0o0. =
Judge Thomas of the Dakota district
court has been obliged to 20 to Kentucky
for his health. The business of the courts
in several of the COUNTIES is more than q
year behind and Judge Thomas, ever since
his appointment has been overworked until
his health has become seriously impaired.
1t is rumored, though no foundation what
ever can be traced for it, that Judge
Thomas is about to resign. The district is
so large that it is absolutely impossible for
one judge to do all the work, and serious
delays are often incurred for that reason.
: Dr.. A. G. Brisbine, the oldest prac-
Using Allopathic physician in Minnesota,
died at st. Paul, June 8, aged 60 years. The
Sunday before he was injured at Shadow
Falls, near the city. He was out driving
with his daughter and alighted from his
carriage to pick flower. He missed his
footing and rolled down an embankment
~ feet. Unexpectedly from internal
injuries complications arose producing
death. He had lived at ST. Paul since 1859.
Lannie McAfee, we'll known through
out the Northwest as French carom
billiard expert, committed suicide at
Minneapolis, on the 3rd, by getting out of
bis bed during a delirium of fever and
leaplng from a third story window. He
was the son of a Davenport, Ia, clergyman,
where his widowed mother now resides.
His age was "a and he was unmarried.
At Cannon Falls, Mimi, citizens are
removing as rapidly as possible all traces of
the late fire. Fifty men are at work
clearing away debris, while number of
new buildings for temporary use are going
up. All the safes have been opened and
contents found in good shape. A carefully
revised estimate OF losses places them at
$l25,cO0.
On the Oath, when the freight train
from Hawarden arrived at Salem, Oak, a
dead man was seen in one of the cars pinned
against the end of it by the lumber with
which it was loaded. He had been stealing
a ride. The lumber had been thrown against
him, and he was dead before help arrived.
He proved to be Henry E. Reese of Huron,
who leaves wife aud six children.
Fifty Indian girls from the House of
the Good Shepherd, in the town of Wau-
watosa, Wis, were returned to their tribes
in Northern Minnesota and Dakota. They
are designed to be educators Of their race
So attached have they become to civilized
methods that many Of the girls cried when
they came to leave their adopted home
and go back to their native home and
parents. .,..s~-.
4" May 81, Territorial Treasurer Ray
mond sold s64o,0oo Dakota bonds at ~ per
cent interest and premium of s3,33s, to
Preston & Co., of Chicago. There were bids
from New York, Cincinnati and three par
ties in Chicago. This is the first time ter
ritoria1 bonds have been placed at less than
per cent, and the authgrities of Dakota
are greatly gratiEed at the result of the
offer. O,
The committe to select the site for
the Minnesota Soldiers home have agreed
upon tract Of eighty acres near Minnehaha
Falls, divided by. the Mississippi river, 40
acres to be donated by Minneapolis and 40
acres by St. Paul. A committee will pro-
the cooperation of the G. A. Il. posts of the
two cities. -,.' w.
The old and once prosperous village
of Wilton, Mimi, which once rivaled Owa-
tonna and was the county seat of Waseca,
is a thing of the past. The railroads when
they came through left it to one side
George Watkins, one of its original proprie-
tors, has now sold lis lots to one purchaser,
and the old town site is converted into
farming lands. ... 49, =
Holong. the brutal murderer of Lilly
Field, at st. Olaf, Mimi, was captured at
Wendell, thirty miles distant. He admitted
would not give him her picture he struck
her stunning her and then dragged her out
to the hog field where he cut her to pieces.
The monster is in jail at Fergus Falls. j..
Mrs. Helen Anton of Miesville Mimi,
was fined $69.Ss and ten days in jail by Jus
tice Hayes upon the charge of selling liquor
on Sunday, and $3.50 for selling liquor to
minors. Alfred Kuhn was the complaining
witness. The cases have been appealed to
the district court. s4tf - ,.,,.E..., ~.
The body of VIM. Cannon, late post
master at Fort Lincoln, who has been
missing several weeks, was found in the
Missouri river 60 miles south of Mandan.
The remains were buried at Winona, Oak,
June /. He had committed suicide: ~, =
Ex-Mayor Geo. B. Strait, died at
shakopee, May 80, of TYPHOID pneumonia
aged IS years. He had resided in Minnesota
since 1853, engaged - numbering and mill
ing He was nati~v Of Pennsylvania and
relative Of Hon. II. B. Strait
New Ulm telegram, June l, Anton
Fisher who murdered his son near Sleepy
Eye last March, plead guilty to the charge
of manslaughter in the first degree Judge
| Webber sentenced him to fifteen years al
hard labor in the penitentiary.
Oakland, Pottawatamie Co., Iowa.
was nearly destroyed by fire on the 2sth
which broke out from spontaneous combus
ton lin a. furniture factory and burned
nearly every store and rendered eight
families homeless. ga ~ III
Frost was reported from many
points in Minnesota and Dakota on the
/ i7th. "a st. Vincent dispatch says: "a
/ severe frost Tuesday night cut down tht
wheat. The fields this morning smell ikt
NEW lnown hay. 7
g. Rauseh and Nick Mott, returning
j to. their homes from ST Martin, Stearn
i Co, Mimi, on the 2Sth, raced their team
land collided, and Mott was killed, to